Protection of pipes by use of latex



Patented Mar. 16, 1926 UNITED STATEQ PATENT OFFICE- CHA-UNCEY G. LOOMIS, F YO'NK'EB S, AND HORACE E- STUMP, 0F BROOKLYN, N ASSIGNQRS, BY M'ESNE ASSIG MENTS, TO THE HEVEA. CORPORATION, A GOBJBO'BATIO'N Q11 NEW YORK.

PROTECTION OF BIKES BY USE OF LATEX.

1% Drawing. Application filed April 21, 1923. Serial No. 633,776.

To all whom it may concern; into irreversible rubber. The latex is pret- Be it known that CHAUNO'EY C. LooMrs erably vulcanized beforenpplication to the and Homer. E. STUMP, citizens of the United pipes but this vul canization can, if desired, States, residing i Yonkers and Brooklyn, be readily obtain n 5 respectively, 1n the counties of Westchester latex a quantity of sulphur, preferably cold IQ D S respectively, and oidal, and then blowing hot air throu 'h g1; k e t d a new and useful mthe pipes to vulcanize the material The the piotectl'on f Pipes 1atex may be VlllCaIl1Z d before application PT 0V emen ullur nit and Use pt Latex, or which the following 1s a by merely lncorPommg P 1 r fi fi e X u m heating it before coagulflilolh 1 t t A 1s inven ion re a esin genera o eprov'd 1 tection oi pipes and. has more particular in t fis rir i:i ifieg g}g can be tea 1 y led emanufach 0 0t same, vention contemplates the employ rifia iit o f d to proprocess for the treatment oi an entire water u 7 system of a house or apartment building A principal ob ect oi the nvention 18 the after instaliation, so that the rubber coats extend continuously across the pipe and other pipes y internally coatin them joints.

' a so 1. The process of protecting pipes, which 1. e. the comprises, coating them internally with n oagu ating the latex to form a derived from the rubber plant or tree to rubber coating.

efiect the provision of an internal rubber 2. The process of protecting pipes, which 25 coating for the pipes. comprises coating them internal y with yul- The latex is'preterably pumped through canized. latex, and coagulating or pleClplilfltthe Water pipes before or (and this is pretmg the latex to form an inte T 1 t t rnal rubber f 6/! f he excess materia protec we coa mg. I,

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